Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/September 2012

= September 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 1


 * 1) 'Transcluding' forum posts, possibly through RSS?
 * 2) Spam emails from myself
 * 3) Disk usage differences between ext3 and ext4?
 * 4) Full version of MS Office or Starter for Netbook?

= September 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 2


 * 1) Inverting the Multimedia and F keys on Asus netbook
 * 2) weird computer problem featuring //@
 * 3) You Tube player problems
 * 4) GIMP 2.8 takes a lot of memory?
 * 5) MIS (Managing Information System)
 * 6) Python: from list of strings, to list of integers

= September 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 3


 * 1) Stupid Twitter question
 * 2) Facebook
 * 3) Outlook 2010 display
 * 4) 2d car movment
 * 5) Mac OS X Lion: Inbuilt PHP

= September 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 4


 * 1) Router
 * 2) How to access a WPS wirelessly?
 * 3) starting a new internet forum
 * 4) Share internet connection with ad hoc network
 * 5) Learning C# after Java / C++
 * 6) Strange delimiters in HTTP?

= September 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 5


 * 1) Bluetooth
 * 2) Hard Disk Docking Station vs 'Portable' HDD
 * 3) Suggestion for reader-controlled highlighting in Wikipedia articles
 * 4) What's the point of LaTex?
 * 5) JPG not working in a WIki
 * 6) Tech help
 * 7) Shadows on green screens

= September 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 6


 * 1) Laptop cooling pads
 * 2) iPhone apps exit immediately after opening.
 * 3) CloudFlare: how big is the cache per free account?
 * 4) 4G LTE = simultaneous voice + data?
 * 5) Downloading website
 * 6) Image processing question
 * 7) How do I post a link on Facebook?
 * 8) Recovering deleted songs on iPod

= September 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 7


 * 1) Domain name pricing
 * 2) Computer keyboards with brightly colored keys used for video editing
 * 3) Parsing guides.
 * 4) Most comfortable NC headphones
 * 5) Problems playing a Windows 98 game on a Vista computer
 * 6) What is the oldest web site still in continuous operation but that has not been updated since it started?
 * 7) Favorites in Order
 * 8) iMac is generally slow
 * 9) List/notification mail reevaluation and filtering
 * 10) Creating a "pretty" ASCII PPM file
 * 11) Web animations/games
 * 12) Basic webdesign tutorial
 * 13) Video effect that mimics something being recorded off of a TV screen with a video camera?

= September 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 8


 * 1) i want tcs current details
 * 2) Which is the actual benefit of a Tesla card in rendering?
 * 3) Rotate Google Map?
 * 4) Sagemath in LaTex
 * 5) Turing test for human scoring
 * 6) Java
 * 7) What's the point of LaTex? II
 * 8) Reduction (complexity)

= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 9


 * 1) LG TV that can turn all 2D images into 3D ?
 * 2) Which CD/DVD?
 * 3) Video streaming is slow, especially in youtube

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 10


 * 1) constructor inheritence in c++
 * 2) 'Transcluding' forum posts, possibly through RSS?
 * 3) Keeping external hard drive in case of a fire?

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 11


 * 1) processing power vs clock speed
 * 2) 7z and wikimedia dumps
 * 3) How to activate the text to-speech voice: "Hazel" in Microsoft Narrator?
 * 4) Someone texting and calling using my number?
 * 5) Linux commands: Unzipping selectively bunch of files in linux, deleting all but two types of file
 * 6) Power Control Center ?

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 12


 * 1) Google is being rude to me
 * 2) Device Names in a Computer with 48 HDDs
 * 3) Improving WINE compatibility
 * 4) Struggling to display images (showing broken links)

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 13


 * 1) OpenDNS disable?
 * 2) Can I do this in Microsoft Word?
 * 3) Problem with attachments
 * 4) Most versatile laptop backpack?
 * 5) Head First Java
 * 6) Star Control II on Linux via emulator?
 * 7) 34-Pin FDD to 40-Pin IDE

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 14


 * 1) How do you use Dia?
 * 2) please how can i compile a kernel which can be used in the cdrom:/isolinux
 * 3) Google Reader not working with Google Alerts feeds
 * 4) Can I disable double-click on title bar ?
 * 5) How to download a video from a website to then upload it onto YouTube?
 * 6) Downloading Torrents on Wi-Fi
 * 7) Using Siri with other languages

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 15


 * 1) Dictation
 * 2) Memory leak in lsass.exe, windows xp SP3
 * 3) RealPlayer Downloader - works in IE, but not in Chrome

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 16


 * 1) Windows 7 logbook?
 * 2) buying internet
 * 3) Uk electricity
 * 4) Android, Linux and Windows security
 * 5) Playing DVDs on Fedora 17 Linux
 * 6) MS-DOS Browsers

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 17


 * 1) windows XP serial number and license key
 * 2) How to disallow others from adding me in groups in Facebook?
 * 3) Strange problem with MediaWiki's edit toolbar.
 * 4) Apple's Magic Mouse
 * 5) Folder 'Temp'
 * 6) Free Trials
 * 7) Bad blocks on drive, reducing timeout length; why weren't bad blocks marked as bad at write time
 * 8) duckduckgo not working?
 * 9) Understanding clincher at staple

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 18


 * 1) Clean Python code [APT/Ubuntu]
 * 2) Microsoft Outlook Scroll Bar
 * 3) Animated weather radar maps
 * 4) Screencasting software

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 19


 * 1) Trip planning software
 * 2) Laptop
 * 3) http://www.pca.state.mn.us/
 * 4) Making columns uncopyable in Excel
 * 5) Is GNU an OS?

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 20


 * 1) Will iOS 5.1.1 -> iOS 6 upgrade strip all my apps and make me manually reinstall them?
 * 2) Learning Java
 * 3) Variable within a python loop
 * 4) Constructor Calls in Java
 * 5) Battery Voltage
 * 6) Powerpoint

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 21


 * 1) What algorithm or method is used to split color and bw?
 * 2) Selecting/clearing current cell's contents in Excel
 * 3) Default program of same name won't stick
 * 4) Adding image file name in excel
 * 5) Google News blanks my search terms out
 * 6) Which part of the computer governs/instructs the monitor?

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 22


 * 1) Apple maps
 * 2) Spotty East Asian Character Support
 * 3) Wi-Fi Connection
 * 4) Setting the clock in linux
 * 5) How may I externally choke the bit rate on streaming web-TV?
 * 6) Desktop recording programs

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 23


 * 1) about files in c
 * 2) Polymorphism
 * 3) Guest account on private wiki
 * 4) How to enable turn-by-turn navigation with voice on iOS 6 running on iPad 3?
 * 5) Game name wanted
 * 6) Why are Android smartphones are so popular in Spain (and iPhones so unpopular)?

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 24


 * 1) Google book text
 * 2) Sending large data files
 * 3) Fixing history errors in svn repository
 * 4) Changing a value in Excel in the same cell
 * 5) No internet access
 * 6) In Windows (7), how do I ensure that I always have enough resources to pull up the task manager and kill a process?
 * 7) Compaq Evo Thin Client T30

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 25


 * 1) PDF formats
 * 2) DosBox questions
 * 3) 8-level flash
 * 4) Programming and Video Editing
 * 5) Understanding Unicode UTF-8 and such

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 26


 * 1) Particle Simulation in Parallel using MPI
 * 2) Encryption of RFID chips
 * 3) nvidia 9800 GT 1024 on Windows 7 crashes
 * 4) Windows 7 Title Bar Grabbing with Excel
 * 5) Third party incompatibilities
 * 6) Yes, some people still want to use videocassettes

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 27


 * 1) check-sum
 * 2) screen capture
 * 3) python mode
 * 4) Calender
 * 5) DLP technology history
 * 6) Quantum cloud computing
 * 7) Extracting information of a pdf file with python
 * 8) Wait-free allocator for 2 processes
 * 9) Computer will not start
 * 10) Need an Online Reference Map for "Open-Access" Wifi networks listed in Europe, Esp. G.B.

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 28


 * 1) Graphing Calculator
 * 2) Now you can, now you can't (find a server)
 * 3) E-mail content - further use
 * 4) Live Twitter updates on mobile
 * 5) Bash Shell Options

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 29


 * 1) CD and DVD player laptop not working and cause
 * 2) Camera lens not fully open
 * 3) Where are the math symbols ?
 * 4) Compiling GFortran external subroutines
 * 5) Big fish in a small pond
 * 6) Multiple PCs on one home hub
 * 7) redirect not appropriate observation
 * 8) Files and directories: could it be different

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 30


 * 1) Preventing websites from displaying annoying Appstore popups to their respective iOS apps
 * 2) Disabling certain ads
 * 3) Free HTML editor
 * 4) my domain being used by a spammer
 * 5) Playing Star Control II
 * 6) Microsoft Excel help